01 Jan 2025
For Spring 2025, we will be organizing the seminar in hybrid mode. The zoom link will be sent via deptartment wide email and the in-person session will be held in the KT 5th floor conference room. While the seminar is held in virtual or hybrid mode, we ask our attendees to follow our Guidelines for Virtual Engagement.
| Date (Eastern Time) |
Organizer |
Long-Form Speaker |
Title/URL of paper/topic |
March 25
12pm - 1pm |
Yasmeen Asali |
Jane Lee (Yale) |
Distribution Learning and Inference using Incomplete Data |
April 8
12pm - 1pm |
Yasmeen Asali |
Ebraheem Farag (Yale) |
From Software Instruments to Stellar Evolution with Git |
April 22
12pm - 1pm |
Yasmeen Asali and Christopher Lindsay |
Jeroen Audenaert (MIT) |
From stellar light to astrophysical insight: automating variable star research with machine learning |
May 6
12pm - 1pm |
Yasmeen Asali |
Viraj Pandya (Columbia) |
Physics-Informed, AI-Accelerated Dynamical Modeling and Bayesian Inference for Galaxy Populations |
May 20
12pm - 1pm |
Yasmeen Asali |
Kaley Brauer (Harvard) |
Simulating Early Chemical Enrichment and Galaxy Formation |
Spring 2025 Organizer: Yasmeen Asali.
01 Aug 2024
For Fall 2024, we will be organizing the seminar in hybrid mode. The zoom link will be sent via deptartment wide email and the in-person session will be held in the KT 5th floor conference room. While the seminar is held in virtual or hybrid mode, we ask our attendees to follow our Guidelines for Virtual Engagement.
| Date (Eastern Time) |
Organizer |
Long-Form Speaker |
Title/URL of paper/topic |
Sept. 3
12pm - 1pm |
Yasmeen Asali |
Journal Club |
See “Yale Astro. Data Science” on benty-fields for papers |
Sept. 17
12pm - 1pm |
Yasmeen Asali and Naomi Gluck |
John Soltis |
Direct Estimation of Galaxy Cluster Mass Accretion Rate using Machine Learning |
Oct. 1
12pm - 1pm |
Yasmeen Asali |
Kartheik Iyer |
Navigating the Cosmic Library with Pathfinder (and why interpretable spaces matter) |
Oct. 29
12pm - 1pm |
Yasmeen Asali |
Jiaxuan Li |
PopSED: Population-Level Inference for Galaxy Properties from Broadband Photometry |
Nov. 12
12pm - 1pm |
Yasmeen Asali |
Ivanna Escala |
Low Signal-to-Noise Resolved Stellar Spectroscopy at the Edge of the Local Group: Extracting Chemical and Kinematical Signatures Probing Galaxy Assembly in the M31 System |
Fall 2024 Organizer: Yasmeen Asali.
01 Jan 2024
For Spring 2024, we will be organizing the seminar in hybrid mode. The zoom link will be sent via deptartment wide email and the in-person session will be held in the KT 5th floor conference room. While the seminar is held in virtual or hybrid mode, we ask our attendees to follow our Guidelines for Virtual Engagement.
| Date (Eastern Time) |
Organizer |
Long-Form Speaker |
Title/URL of paper/topic |
Jan. 30
12pm - 1pm |
Imad Pasha |
Journal Club |
Deep Image Prior: the structure of generator network can capture many image statistics prior to any learning |
Feb. 13
12pm - 1pm |
Yasmeen Asali |
Hannah Wang |
Accelerate nature-based climate solution with machine learning |
Feb. 27
12pm - 1pm |
Yasmeen Asali |
Natali de Santi |
Measuring the impact of systematics on the predictions of Ωm on simulated galaxy catalogs using graph neural networks |
Mar. 26
12pm - 1pm |
Yasmeen Asali |
Shivam Pandey |
Cosmological Field-Level Inference and Its Pitfalls |
Apr. 9
12pm - 1pm |
Christopher Lindsay |
Marc Hon |
Go with the Flow: Generative Emulation for Grids of Stellar Models |
Apr. 23
12pm - 1pm |
Yasmeen Asali |
Helen Qu |
Towards Precision Photometric Supernova Cosmology with Machine Learning |
Spring 2024 Organizer: Yasmeen Asali.
01 Sep 2023
For Fall 2023, we will be organizing the seminar in hybrid mode. The zoom link will be sent via deptartment wide email and the in-person session will be held in the KT 5th floor conference room. While the seminar is held in virtual or hybrid mode, we ask our attendees to follow our Guidelines for Virtual Engagement.
| Date (Eastern Time) |
Organizer |
Long-Form Speaker |
Title/URL of paper/topic |
Sept. 19
12pm - 1pm |
Yasmeen Asali |
Becky Nevin |
Interpretable statistical learning for galaxy merger science: Key insights and lessons learned |
Oct. 3
12pm - 1pm |
Zili Shen |
Naomi Gluck |
An Observationally Driven Multifield Approach for Probing the Circum-Galactic Medium with Convolutional Neural Networks |
Oct. 17
12pm - 1pm |
Yasmeen Asali |
Matt Sampson |
Utilizing score-matching diffusion models as data-driven priors for efficient, constraint free, source deblending |
Oct. 31
12pm - 1pm |
Yasmeen Asali |
Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro |
Generative AI for the Large Scale Structure |
Nov. 14
12pm - 1pm |
Yasmeen Asali |
Daniel Muthukrishna |
Data-Driven Discovery of Transients in Time-Domain Surveys |
Nov. 28
12pm - 1pm |
Yasmeen Asali |
Tom Wagg |
Gravitational waves in our galactic backyard |
Dec. 12
12pm - 1pm |
Yasmeen Asali |
Sabrina Berger |
Using gradient descent-like methods to reconstruct the matter density field at high-z |
Fall 2023 Organizer: Yasmeen Asali, Imad Pasha, and Sasha Gaines.
01 Jan 2023
For Spring 2023, we will be organizing the seminar in hybrid mode. The zoom link will be sent via deptartment wide email and the in-person session will be held in the 46 HLH conference room. While the seminar is held in virtual or hybrid mode, we ask our attendees to follow our Guidelines for Virtual Engagement.
| Date (Eastern Time) |
Organizer |
Long-Form Speaker |
Title/URL of paper/topic |
Jan. 24
12pm - 1pm |
Yasmeen Asali |
Francisco Förster Burón |
The ALeRCE astronomical alert broker |
Mar. 7
12pm - 1pm |
Sasha Safonova |
Kaze Wong |
Challenges and Opportunities from gravitational waves: data scientists on diet |
Mar. 28
12pm - 1pm |
Sasha Safonova |
Georgios Valogiannis |
Going Beyond the Galaxy Power Spectrum: an Analysis of BOSS Data with Wavelet Scattering Transforms |
Apr. 11
12pm - 1pm |
Tim Miller |
Julia Briden |
Safe and Computationally Efficient Space Exploration: A Data-Driven Approach |
Apr. 25
12pm - 1pm |
Tim Miller |
Xinyi Chen |
Tips for Using Pytorch and GPU on Grace |
Spring 2023 Organizers: Yasmeen Asali, Tim Miller, and Sasha Safonova.
01 Sep 2022
For Fall 2022, we will be organizing the seminar in hybrid mode. The zoom link will be sent via deptartment wide email and the in-person session will be held in the 46 HLH conference room. While the seminar is held in virtual or hybrid mode, we ask our attendees to follow our Guidelines for Virtual Engagement.
| Date (Eastern Time) |
Organizer |
Long-Form Speaker |
Title/URL of paper/topic |
Sept. 13
12pm - 1pm |
Tim Miller |
Ivana Babic (LMU) |
BAO scale inference from biased tracers using the EFT likelihood |
Sept. 27
12pm - 1pm |
Tim Miller |
Farnik Nikakhtar |
Introduction to Optimal Transport for Astrophysical Needs |
Oct. 11
12pm - 1pm |
Yasmeen Asali |
Marc Huertas-Company |
Deep learning the physics of galaxy formation |
Oct. 25
12pm - 1pm |
Yasmeen Asali |
August Muench (AAS) |
Advances in data, software, and graphics in Journal articles |
Nov. 8
12pm - 1pm |
Sasha Safonova |
Priyanka Singh |
Dissecting the steps involved in galaxy classification using multi-wavelength photometric data |
Nov. 29
12pm - 1pm |
Sasha Safonova |
Inigo Slijepcevic (Manchester) |
Efficiently learning from un-labelled data for image processing in radio astronomy |
Fall 2022 Organizers: Yasmeen Asali, Tim Miller, and Sasha Safonova.
01 Jan 2022
For Spring 2022, we will be organizing the seminar virtually until Yale guidelines allow for in person gatherings to resume. The zoom link will be sent via deptartment wide email. While the seminar is held in virtual or hybrid mode, we ask our attendees to follow our Guidelines for Virtual Engagement.
| Date (Eastern Time) |
Organizer |
Long-Form Speaker |
Title/URL of paper/topic |
Feb. 1
12pm - 1pm |
Yasmeen Asali |
Sasha Safonova, Aritra Ghosh, Yasmeen Asali |
Benty-Fields Discussion |
Feb. 15
12pm - 1pm |
Yasmeen Asali |
Tim Miller |
Normalizing Flows |
Mar. 1
12pm - 1pm |
Tim Miller |
Yasmeen Asali |
Clustering and Dimensionality Reduction |
Mar. 15
12pm - 1pm |
Ava Polzin |
Matthew Ho |
Observational Inference in the Era of Machine Learning |
Mar. 29
12pm - 1pm |
Sasha Safonova |
Uri Shalit |
Multi-domain calibration of machine learning models and its relation to out-of-domain generalization |
Apr. 12
12pm - 1pm |
Aritra Ghosh |
Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro |
The CAMELS suite of simulations |
Apr. 26
12pm - 1pm |
Sasha Safonova |
Aaron Geller |
Why/How/When to Visualize Your Research Results |
Spring 2022 Organizers: Yasmeen Asali, Aritra Ghosh, Tim Miller, Ava Polzin, and Sasha Safonova.
01 Sep 2021
For Fall 2021, we will be organizing the seminar virtually until Yale guidelines allow for in person gatherings to resume. The zoom link will be sent via deptartment wide email. While the seminar is held in virtual or hybrid mode, we ask our attendees to follow our Guidelines for Virtual Engagement.
| Date (Eastern Time) |
Organizer |
Long-Form Speaker |
Title/URL of paper/topic |
Sept. 20
12pm - 1pm |
Aritra Ghosh |
Sasha Safonova |
Introduction & Overview of a variety of Neural Networks |
Oct. 4
12pm - 1pm |
Aritra Ghosh |
Yasmeen Asali |
Computer Generated Images and Detection |
Oct. 18
12pm - 1pm |
Yasmeen Asali |
Tibor Rothschild |
Emulating Sunyaev-Zeldovich Images of Galaxy Clusters using Auto-Encoders |
Nov. 1
12pm - 1pm |
Aritra Ghosh, Yasmeen Asali |
Viviana Acquaviva |
Understanding galaxies: The perilous road from simulations to data |
Nov. 15
12pm - 1pm |
Aritra Ghosh |
Miles Cranmer |
The Problem with Deep Learning in Astrophysics (and how to fix it) |
Nov. 29
12pm - 1pm |
Sasha Safonova |
Paula Sánchez Sáez |
Searching for different AGN populations in massive datasets with Machine Learning |
Dec. 13
12pm - 1pm |
Sasha Safonova |
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NeurIPS Special Session Overview/Recap |
Fall 2021 Organizers: Yasmeen Asali, Aritra Ghosh, Sasha Safonova, and Zili Shen.